“…However, more recently, Yan, Kliegl, Richter, Nuthmann, and Shu (2010) reported some conflicting results relative to the initial studies. First, they found that the initial fixation on a word was more likely to fall on the characters at the beginning of a word, resulting in a PVL curve peaked at the beginning of a word when more than one fixation is made on a word (for similar results, see Shu, Zhou, Yan, & Kliegl, 2011). This pattern is consistent with findings from unspaced English reading (Rayner et al, 1998) and findings from Japanese reading (Kajii, Nazir, & Osaka, 2001).…”